The only thing that stops the dust is the rain. It’s a sweet reprieve, but there is no middle ground. The land is either as dry as the Betty Ford clinic, or as wet as the ocean floor. Everything can be seen from the ridge overlooking Armadillo as John Marston gently bounces along atop...

I'm fine with AOE2 as it is, anyway - i just finished a match right before i came on GR, actually.
Kicked 2 CPUs ass' with my viking berserkers. Seriously, they're overpowered as hell. I love it. Create a line of them with trebuchets to back them up and nothing can oppose you.

Quick tip incase anybody didn't already know, to fix colours just disable explorer in task manager, and then start it back up when you're finished. Then you can run AOE2 on Win7 64bit perfectly._________________http://i.imgur.com/uXwrTYA.jpg
Savage

Yeah, the game still looks pretty good these days, even on my laptop. Just crank it up to 1024x768 and deal with the 4:3, or if you must have 16:9 -
http://www.wsgf.org/dr/age-empires-ii-conquerors-expansion/en
You could try that until the 5th. Obviously the purpose built one would work better, but that looks pretty good if you just want 1280x720 or something.

If your CD's dead, just torrent it. There's a pre-installed version with tons of seeds on tbp just you just extract and double click straight away. That's what i'm using right now, because downloading 180mb was quicker than searching through boxes looking for my discs.
It's annoying how CDs degrade over time. I had to torrent Warcraft 3 because the Frozen Throne cd in my battlechest thing decided to die._________________http://i.imgur.com/uXwrTYA.jpg
Savage

I kick major Teutonic ass with my Vikings, longo. The CPU is too stupid to pack the bombard towers with archers, so my berserkers just storm in and ruin the place.

I'll probably buy the steam version at some point. I still have random money in my steam wallet thing that's been sitting there for, what, 6+ months?

Then we call do a big GR free-for-all. 8 of us should be keen enough. Maybe we can get ugh in on it and convince him to go for the Goths. I'm sure 5 or 6 rows of wooden walls would be good enough, right?_________________http://i.imgur.com/uXwrTYA.jpg
Savage

So, why is this worth more than $1 again? It's literally just AOE2 that's been stretched. There's not even any graphics options. The exact same experience is had with a slightly modified version of the original game, except it's much smaller on your HDD._________________http://i.imgur.com/uXwrTYA.jpg
Savage

Yeah, it's basically just an update of the original game to run at higher resolutions. And some of the unit animations have a short delay before the loop, which is just ugly. But, being released on the Steam platform, hopefully we'll see more patches and updates, and almost certainly more mods a la Steam Workshop._________________

Longo_2_guns wrote:

I was drunk last night, but I stand by my vote call. De-Ting is considerably more active than he usually is when playing, which means he's actually something worth playing.